Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-07
The Boys Lunch.

The Boys Lunch.
once stood by farm house table
while g. lunch was being thrown to-
gether for boy Of twelve or thirteen,
who was only waiting for that to be
off to school. The pail was large
enough to hold dinners for three
Or four children, and whatever was
put into it could not fail of being Jolt
ed into fragments in the mile and a
half Journey it must take in the
hands OF an energetic BOY.
Two thick, irregular slices of brown
bread were hastily spread with butter,
placed together, and deposited in the
bottom. Then went in q cold sau.
sage, left from the family breakfast,
and huge cucumber pickle. A wedge
OF dried apple pie crowned the whole,
the cover was pushed on, and the
boy, who had stood with look OF
disgust on his face, which he was too
well disciplined to put Into words,
picked up his pail and started for
school, pausing just outside the door
to supplement his repast with half-a-
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On the same table stood basket
of delicious looking Bartlett pears,
and another of snowy fresh eggs, but
those were for the market, and the
farmer was already Harvesting to
take them there. In the pantry was
generous piece of cold roast beef,
and in the cake cupboard was store
of crisp seed cakes, and delicate cup
cakes, not to mention loaves of
pound and fruit cake, but all those
were for expected company. What if
they we're? There were plenty for
the company and the boy too.
If had beer preparing that boys
midday meal, | would first have
found a basket of suitable size, if
had bought one especially for the pur-
pose. A stout little basket would have
withstood the boys banging as we'll
as the pail, and perhaps if it had been
apreuty basket with q lid, he would
not have banged it so much. Then
would have lined the bottom with
clean white paper, g. fresh piece every
morning.
Iwould have cut the brown bread
thinly and evenly, butt cred it as neat
ly as possible, inserted some OF the
cold meat between the slices, and
wrapped them firmly in some of the
white paper. [ would have boiled g.
couple Of those eggs, and tied up g.
little paper Of mingled salt and pep
per to season them. I would have
made another little parcel of two or
three seed cakes, or cup-cake or
two, added one or two of those love-
ly pears and covered the whole with q
napkin, if it were only one made from
one end Of worn-out tablecloth. In
short, if my boy had to carry his din
ner to school, heshould have found g.
bit of his mothers loving thought for
him in the bottom of the basket.
Then [ would have enioined the boy
to shake the crumbs out of his basket.
fold up his papers and napkin neatly,
and lay them therein, and bring them
safely home again. Too much bother
to make about boy? I am not so
certain OF that. Girls pick up the lit
tie graces OF life naturally, but one
has often to make pride for boys.
Then just as little child will often
behave better g. whole afternoon for
being "dressed up" putting off mis-
chief and noise with the gingham
morning apron, and putting on mild
ness and docility with the clean COL
lar and freshly polished shoes, SO l
think, oftentimes, the carefully put
up lunch is more daintily eaten, with
more regard FOR the proprieties and
amenities. And that is always some
thing in the bringingu up of boys.-[H.
Annette Pool, in Good Housekeeping.